Advanced passives in the news: the suspect is believed to have fled
Grammar · Advanced passives · C1 · 45 min. Reporting passives, passive infinitives and gerunds, and causative have in journalistic English.
About this worksheet
Reporting passives, passive infinitives and gerunds, and causative have in journalistic English.
- Level
- C1
- Category
- Grammar
- Topic
- Advanced passives
- Time
- About 45 minutes
- Exercises
- Multiple choice, Gap-fill, Word order, Speaking / writing task, Writing lines
- Answer key
- Included
- Access
- Free
On the sheet
- Multiple choice: Choose the correct passive form for each news sentence.
- Gap-fill: Key-word transformations. Complete the second sentence using the word
- Word order: Put the words in order to make sentences from news reports.
- Speaking / writing task: Turn these reporter's notes into a short news report (100–130 words).
- Writing lines: Write your news report here.
